Celebrity Big Brother 2024: Gary Goldsmith addresses Kate Middleton health rumours and hits out at Prince Harry

Here is the Celebrity Big Brother 2024 housemates – all in one place for your viewing pleasure.

Going by the audience reaction during the live launch, this year’s favourites currently are: Nikita Kuzmin, Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu, Marisha Wallace, Levi Roots, Bradley Riches and Fern Britton.

After placing Zeze, David and Gary in danger of being nominated on night one, Sharon was told by Big Brother to make her pick after interviewing each three.

She chooses Kate Middleton’s uncle, Gary Goldsmith, stating: “I don’t hin he’s that comfortable here – I think he’s awkward with himself being here, too. It’s very tough for him – I think he’s brave to have come in here. I somehow don’t think this is the place for him. He’s just the oddball out from everyone that’s in here.”

A question on everyone’s lips in recent weeks has been centred on the whereabouts of Kate Middleton, who has been out of the limelight due to a mystery illness.

Well, step forward Ekin-Su, who straight up asks her uncle Gary where she is.

Naturally, he remains coy on the subject, but assures his fellow housemates that she is getting the “best care in the world” and “will be back” soon.

“Genuinely, I haven’t been there for 15 years – I got off the train and it’s way over the horizon now, so I honestly don’t know,” she said of recent furore behind the scenes.

She continued: “I can’t say anything. It was tricky at times. I think Ben [Shephard] and Cat [Deeley] are going to do a great job.”

When Gary said Phillip Schofield might enter the house as a surprise contestant, she looked alarmed and told him: “That didn’t happen – yet. Maybe he’s coming in as a surprise. I might have to leave at that point.”

Find out what happened between the pair:

Fern says to Gary: “William must be furious that he has the weight of the world on his shoulders when he could have shared it.” Gary agrees, and says he “thinks he’s done an amazing job” in a “horrible situation”, and “desperately feels” William has extended several olive branches to Harry.

“I genuinely think they should take the titles away,” he said of Harry and Meghan.

Elsewhere, when Fern says she has money on David Cameron becoming the next Tory leader, Garysays he’s “heard” that might be a thing, revealing that he’s not a fan of Rishi Sunak.

He also likes Trump, so there’s that.

Louis says he “didn’t always get along with Cheryl” when he worked with her on The X Factor.

He also tells Marisha and Ekin-Su he worked for two days with Britney Spears on the US version of the show, saying: “She was there, but she wasn’t relaly there. She had earplugs in.”

Not only does she have her own room away from the other housemates, but she gets to lie in for, seemingly, as long as she wants. Whatever you think of her, that’s pretty legendary.

The next episode is here! Who will Sharon pick to face the public vote? We’ll be finding out in the next hour.

Hello! And welcome to night three of CBB.

Will Louis and David lock horns again tonight? Will Gary spill any royal secrets? And will Ekin-Su confide in agony aunt Fern again?